Favorite Quotes

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle.
— e.e. cummings

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
— Meridjet

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
— Alfred Korzybski

If you don’t know where you are going, any path will get you there.
— Lewis Carroll

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
— William James

An optimistic mindset finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
— Robert Anton Wilson

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as our fate.
— Carl Jung

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning, a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
— Bruce Lee

For one man or one institution to claim that there is only one true way to godhood is an insult to the god they represent, because they have reduced Its omnipotence and omnipresence to the scope of their own minds.
— Gerald del Campo

The Tao is that which never acts yet leaves nothing undone.
— Tao Te Ching

First there is a mountain. Then there is no mountain. Then there is.
— Zen koan

A teacher is never a giver of truth – he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.
— Bruce Lee

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
— Jamie Paolinetti

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
— Kahlil Gibran

No matter how painful [an] ordeal may be, it must be treated as an adventure. Keep in mind that, up until this point, every ordeal’s purpose has been to prepare you for the kind of life you are now living. See where current circumstances are leading you, and how they are changing your life, and use this information to find out where you are going. It is an honor to know that you have been worthy of instruction. Remember that you placed yourself where you are now. Remember the ancient dictum: “I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my Soul.”
— Gerald del Campo